See fraisten on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "See fraist.",
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},
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"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
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"glosses": [
"To test, put to the test."
],
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"english": "His friend tried with all his might to raise him quickly up again",
"roman": "His felow fraisted with al his mayn / To raise him smertly up ogayn;",
"text": "Early 14th c. Anonymous, \"Ywain and Gawain\", in MS Cotton Galba E ix. Transcribed and reprinted in 1995, Braswell, Mary Flowers (ed.), Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain, Medieval Institute Publications, →ISBN, p. 167, l. 3253–3254."
}
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"To try, attempt; to find out by trying."
],
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"english": "Lord, I will go home as fast as I can; I will ask my wife what she has to say, and I would be shocked if some quarrel wouldn't arise between us.",
"ref": "15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 28, lines 182–185:",
"text": "lord, homward will I hast / as fast as that I may; / My [wife] will I frast / what she will say, / And I am agast / that we get som fray / Betwixt vs both",
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"To seek out; ask, inquire"
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"etymology_text": "See fraist.",
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}
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"To try, attempt; to find out by trying."
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"english": "Lord, I will go home as fast as I can; I will ask my wife what she has to say, and I would be shocked if some quarrel wouldn't arise between us.",
"ref": "15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 28, lines 182–185:",
"text": "lord, homward will I hast / as fast as that I may; / My [wife] will I frast / what she will say, / And I am agast / that we get som fray / Betwixt vs both",
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